Premier League LIVE: Build up to Fulham vs Crystal Palace – score, stats & updates
Fulham have not won any of their last six Premier League home matches against Crystal Palace (D3 L3) since a 3-1 victory in January 2005.
Crystal Palace won this particular match 2-0 in February, ending a six-match winless run against Fulham in the Premier League (D4 L2).
Fulham have alternated defeat (3) and victory (2) in their last five home London derbies in the Premier League, losing 1-0 to Arsenal last time out in October.
Crystal Palace won 2-0 against Brentford in their last Premier League derby in London – they haven’t won consecutive derby matches since April 2017 (against Chelsea and Arsenal).
Fulham scored four goals for the first time in 52 Premier League matches last time out against Man City, but still finished on the losing side. It was only the second time they had lost a home league match by scoring more than 4 goals, following a 4–6 defeat to Leicester in September 1952.
Only Arsenal have kept more clean sheets (8) and conceded fewer goals (7) in the Premier League this season than Crystal Palace (7 clean sheets, 11 goals conceded), with the Eagles keeping a clean sheet in four of their last five matches.
Since the start of last season, only Brighton (23) have scored more goals via substitutes in the Premier League than Fulham (21, excluding own goals), with Samuel Chukwueze scoring twice from the bench against Man City last time out.
Fulham’s Samuel Chukwueze is averaging a goal or assist every 46 minutes in the Premier League this season, scoring two goals and providing three assists in just 229 minutes. This is the best number of minutes per goal committed by a player in the history of the competition (min. 200 minutes).
Three of Emile Smith Rowe’s last five Premier League goals have been headers – none of his first 15 goals in the competition for Arsenal and Fulham were headed.
Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta has never scored a Premier League goal against Fulham in five games against them, his most against a goalless team (also five against Southampton). He had 10 shots and recorded an xG of 1.52 without scoring against the Cottagers.